Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-02-09


Michael Sonkup, the young Bohemian
who assaulted Sheriff Kincel with a shot
gun on Saturday was arraigned in Judge
Congletop's court TODAY. He plead not
guilty to the charge, and was held in
the cum of $500 to appear before the
grand jury.
We we're shown last night the plan
for q twenty thousand dollar brick block
on Third street, but the protector OBJ
jected to the mention OF bis name just
now, as his arrangements are not all
completed. He says he has leased one
of the stores.
Adylces from Bismarck are that the
charges against the insane asylum are
considered by the Legislature as too
trivial for consideration and no investi-
cations will be permitted. The sup
e%rintendent would doubtless prefer an
Investigation as a vipdioation. So good
an officer should be protected.
Postal car service lie to be placed on
the. Milwaukee roed between YanktoA
and Mitchell. the order for this service
gong into effect tomorrow, though car
service cannot begin so early, as no
clerks have been provided for the ex-
tension. Heretofc re shis strip of rail-
road bias been supplied by pouch service.
The distance from Yankton to Chica-
go over tie Milwaukee road, via the
new CUTOFF between Sioux City and
the Council Bluffs line, is 5S3 miles, q
reduction of about eighty miles from
the distance nov travelled in following
the line OF the Milwaukee to Chicago.
The Northwestern route is still the
shorter one the distance to Chicago over
that linetbeiDg 55S miles.
Preparations are being made to rem.
der the social at j. r. Sanborn's next
Friday evening ss pleasant as the guests
may wish. Each lady will be provided
with the map of some state or country,
no names being given. Each gentleman,
by the payment of thirty cents, will
have the privilege of drawing the name
of some capital. He must then find the
map to which his capital belongs. The
lady wearing it will be his partner and
will share the lunch, she has prepared,
with him.
The services at the Methodist Episco-
pal church lsst Sabbath were very in.
teresting. After the usual sermon by
Rev. O. E. Hsger twelve accessions we're
made to the church and others are ready
to mite. At the Sunday school session
in the afternoon the new library books
were distributed to the school, tho
library having been replenished with
two hundred new books, making o
library of four hundred volumes belong
ing to the school. In the evening O
lecture on prohibition was given by che
pastor, which was one of the best of the
series, after which additional pledges
we're added to the great number already
given in.
Relative to the attempt OF the advo-
Gates OF the Mitchell court bill to eoeroe
Mr.. Grigsby, OF Sioux Falls into support
of that measure, by threatening the de-
feat of g Sioux Falls bond bill, the st.
Paul Pioneer Press Bismarck correspond
ent says: ''Grigsby talks as though he
had made up his mind not to give up, no
matter what may be the consequences.
he has given his pledge to Yankton
people, and purposes to keep it. He
says if Mitchell kills his bill in the
house they Will never get their removal
bill through the council, and it ls report
ed that at least one councilman, Gallo
way, who was counted for the removal
bill, will vote TO sustain Grigsby in his
position. It Is not impossible that the
outcome may be the defeat OF both
pending bills as we'll BIS Grigsby's bill
to remove the supreme court from Dead.
wood to Sioux Falls"
The prohibition bill sent to Bismarck
from Yankton is too solid for the use OF
the Legislature and frightens even the
prohibitionists of that body by its iron
clad provisions. 80 it will probably not
be passed. After the Yankton commit
tee had decided to prepare a bill they
called on General Campbell and request
ed him to draft it. He consented and
asked them if they wanted a bill that
would prohibit. That was what they
were after. The general turned himself
loose with the remark that there was no
trouble about drawing up o law that
would stop the sale and use Of liquor
the trouble was that even Legislators in
favor of prohibition did not want that
kind of a bill, p~referring something full
OF loop holes. Bat he made the bill to
order. as the committee wanted it, and
the first glance has frightened the legis-
lative advocates of no whisky. The
drouth would be too sudden,
Sheriff KinceI and Deputy Branch re.
turned last evening from the Soukup
farm, bringing with them all the mort
gagged property, excepting twelve head
OF cattle, which are missing. They
found everything on a peaceful footing,
the old man gone away, the dogs tied
up and the girl without her customary
butcher knife. 1t is supposed that the
Soukups are beginning to understand
that the law must be enforced. Mr.,
Soukup has probably fed through feal
| of arrest. He has acted rather q coward.